The Crisis of The Negro Intellectual Reconsidered

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Notes......Page 24
Part 1 An Overview of the Cruse Project......Page 26
1 More Than Just a Politician......Page 28
Notes......Page 49
Nativist Imperative in American Life......Page 54
A Political Culture of Whiteness......Page 55
Attributes of Black Modernist Dilemma......Page 56
Explaining the Black Modernist Dilemma......Page 57
Dissecting Cruse’s Black Nationalist Sympathy......Page 58
Basic Elements of Harold Cruse’s Theory......Page 59
Cruse’s Naive Psychologism......Page 60
A Critique of Cruse’s Views on White Ethnic Development......Page 61
Cruse’s View of the Interracialist Fallacy......Page 62
The Interface of Interracialism and Black Modernization......Page 64
A Note on Harold Cruse and West Indian Intellectuals......Page 66
Harold Cruse’s Interface with the Black Elite......Page 69
Harold Cruse Celebrates Early Harlem Black Capitalists......Page 70
Cruse’s Text Emits a Phony Aura of Militancy......Page 73
Problematics of Cruse’s Problack Nationalism......Page 76
A Concluding Note......Page 80
Notes......Page 83
3 Negro Exceptionalism......Page 86
Notes......Page 101
Part 2 Cruse as Cultural Critic......Page 106
4 Harold Cruse’s Worst Nightmare......Page 108
Notes......Page 118
5 The African American Musician as Intellectual......Page 122
The Musical Landscape of the Crisis of the Negro Intellectual and Accomplishment in Jazz......Page 123
Autonomy and Self-Determination in African American Musics......Page 128
Conclusion......Page 130
Notes......Page 131
Part 3 Black, Jews, and Communists......Page 134
6 Harold Cruse on Blacks and Jews......Page 136
Notes......Page 147
From Crusade to Crisis......Page 154
The “Jewish Crusade”......Page 158
The Lost Legacy of Black Marxism......Page 161
The Literary Record......Page 164
Notes......Page 167
8 The Crisis of Blacks and Communism......Page 174
Notes......Page 181
Part 4 Cruse as Cold Warrior......Page 184
9 The Cold War Seduction of Harold Cruse......Page 186
Notes......Page 197
10 The Crisis of Historical Memory......Page 200
Notes......Page 214
Part 5 The Problematic Status of Female Intellectuals......Page 218
Practitioner Intellectuals and Gender Issues......Page 220
Bodies Matter......Page 223
Liberation Contributions of Academic Intellectuals......Page 227
Bodies That Think: Womanist Constructive Approaches......Page 231
Notes......Page 236
12 Where are the Black Female Intellectuals?......Page 240
Note......Page 242
Part 6 Cruse and Black Nationalism......Page 244
13 Harold Cruse and Afrocentric Theory......Page 246
Notes......Page 255
14 Rethinking the Crisis of the Negro Intellectual......Page 258
From Black to Red and Back: Harold Cruse and the Communist Party......Page 259
The Lonely Struggle......Page 261
A Cuban Excursion......Page 263
Revolutionary Nationalism: The Political Writings of Harold Cruse......Page 265
Cruse and the Freedom Now Party......Page 267
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: Reactions and Responses......Page 268
Conclusion......Page 273
Notes......Page 275
Part 7 Cruse as Political Thinker......Page 280
15 Home to Harlem......Page 282
Black Nationalism and African American Identity......Page 283
Harlem as Ideal Community......Page 289
Notes......Page 295
16 Cruse’s Dismissal of African American Liberalism......Page 300
African American liberalism and the State......Page 302
Toward the Formation of African American Liberalism......Page 304
African American Liberalism: A Thick Description......Page 306
Two Strains of African American Liberalism......Page 308
The NAACP and the Problem of a Black Liberal Intelligentsia......Page 312
Conclusion......Page 317
Notes......Page 318
Conclusion......Page 324
One: Absence of a Sociology of Intellectuals......Page 325
Three:  The Mistaken Centrality of Harlem......Page 326
Four:  Misunderstanding the Centrality of African American religion......Page 327
Five:  The Role of Black Intellectuals in the Civil Rights Movement......Page 328
Eight:  Marginalizing Female African American Intellectuals......Page 329
Nine:  Ignoring Black Intellectuals Outside of the Culture Industry......Page 330
Eleven:  One-Dimensional Critique of the Communist Party......Page 332
Thirteen: Contradictions in Argument......Page 333
Notes......Page 335
Index......Page 336